1. Media in the Online Age
Revision Task

2. Task
Create a presentation that works through the following
questions for two media areas (e.g. news, film, webseries, etc.):
• How have online media developed?
• What has been the impact of the Internet on media
production?
• How is consumer behaviour and audience response
transformed by online media, in relation to the past?
• To what extent has convergence transformed the media?

3. • Work through the four questions ensuring you cover
both media areas in detail.
• Give detailed examples to support your points.
• Ensure you make links to theory throughout.
• Include images and other media to illustrate your points.

4. Just in case you wondered why this is a useful revision
task, see the following info from the exam board about
the Media in the Online Age section of the exam…

5. OCR Specification:
Section B: Contemporary Media Issues - Media in the Online Age
Candidates must prepare and use specific case studies, texts, debates and
research of the topic to demonstrate understanding of the contemporary
issue. This understanding must combine knowledge of at least two media
and a range of texts, industries, audiences and debates.
The topic is accompanied by four prompt questions, and candidates must be
prepared to answer an exam question that relates to one or more of these
four prompts:
• How have online media developed?
• What has been the impact of the Internet on media production?
• How is consumer behaviour and audience response transformed
by online media, in relation to the past?
• To what extent has convergence transformed the media?

6. OCR Specification continued:
There should be emphasis on the historical, the contemporary and the future in
relation to the chosen topic, with most attention on the present:
• Historical – dependent on the requirements of the topic, candidates must
summarise the development of the media forms in question in theoretical
contexts.
• Contemporary – current issues within the topic area.
• Future – candidates must demonstrate personal engagement with debates about
the future of the media forms / issues that the topic relates to.
Candidates might explore combinations of any two media, considering how
each (or the two in converged forms) can be analysed from the above
prompts.
Examples might be music downloading and distribution, the film industry
and the internet, online television, online gaming, online news provision,
various forms of online media production by the public or a range of other
online media forms.